I always look at things as, instead of a problem, how is this an opportunity?

Why do people watch fights?... They watch it for inspiration.

You have to wake up and say, 'I have a fire in me to be better than I am right now.' That's your base.

Your job, with all that mental training and suffering, is just to push your line of breaking so far your opponent can't find it.

I get a huge kick out of training people, out of helping people, out of just being a part of a process that I get to see people's dreams come true.

Humility comes from how you come at the world. Confidence comes from how you come at yourself.

Fighters have to be optimists.

Every day is one day closer to the dirt, so you got to go hard.

I wanted to help people. I was raised by Quaker hippies... True happiness comes from helping others, that's what was pounded in my head from day one... So that began my teaching journey.

There's an old Celtic proverb that I follow: See much, study much, suffer much is the path to wisdom.

You have to get comfortable being uncomfortable... so that when we get our 15 minutes in the cage, we don't panic, we don't break down.

…a cynic who was still saddened whenever his jaundiced view of mankind was confirmed...

He read it for the same reason an animal tears at a wounded foot: to hurt the pain.

...how are you sacred to me? your lines are golden threads - your patter, my patten - I explore the liturgy of your words...

Truth demands progress and change, and is always for the benefit of all souls—even if you must travel through a difficult learning process or make a shift as a result of facing the truth.

'Tis Fate that flings the dice And as she flings Of kings makes peasants And of peasants kings.

Never give in and never give up.

You might get some serial killers who are born with a chip missing, but for the most part I don't think anyone is born bad.

I don't ever want to be perfect, Cause I'm a singer that you Never want to see shirtless

Follow your arrow / Wherever it points.

Perfectionism is the enemy of profitability.